Individual Assignment (90% of the Final Mark):
Topic: Exploring my Leadership Self
Aim:
The objective of this paper is for you to analyse and discuss your
current and desired leadership self, based on the triune brain approach
and other theories discussed in class.
Deadline: To be announced during the first day of classes
Word length: 3000-3500, excluding appendices.
References:
Referencing should follow the American Psychological Association Style.
All sources and references used in the text should be cited at the end
of the paper.
Structure of the paper: The paper should have the following sections:
Short Intro (200 words)
The intro needs to clarify the purpose of your report and the structure (organisation) of your report.
My Self (500 words)
Describe
yourself in terms of your personality and behaviours. Take into
consideration the BIG Five personality test and how the results can be
linked to your behaviour in personal conditions. You could provide
answers to questions, such as: What am I passionate about? What do I
believe is important? How do I want to contribute? To whom? Use academic
references where appropriate to support your arguments.
My Current Leadership-Self (1000 words)
Describe
your leadership self by emphasising on the results from leadership
questionnaires (Leadership Preferences and Motivation to Lead). You can
also utilise your personal experiences that influenced your development
as a leader till today. Use academic references where appropriate to
support your arguments.
My Future Leadership Self (1300 words)
By
utilising on the Triune Brain Approach to Leadership discuss what you
need to do in order to develop your leadership abilities further. In
your answer you need to argue about how you will develop your:
Thinking Leadership Side
Describe
how you can develop your cognitive leadership self by emphasising on
the way that you can improve the way that you think rationally and act.
Use academic references where appropriate to support your arguments.
Emotional Leadership Side
Discuss
the way that you can utilise more upon emotions that fit you as a
person that can be used to lead others. How can you develop further your
emotional self? Use academic references where appropriate to support
your arguments.
Leadership Brain Automations
Discuss which
areas of personal improvement do you feel you should work more at this
stage and how you can do that by initiating atomic habits. Use academic
references where appropriate to support your arguments.
Conclusions (500 words)
Summarise
your thoughts by emphasising of your leadership self in terms of
obstacles that can inhibit you from pursuing your future leadership
dreams and aspirations? Which steps can you make towards getting closer
to your future leadership self during the time of your MSc studies? What
will be the first things that you will do towards this target, the
first year after you have graduated? Any other conclusion about
developing your leadership-self further.
Criteria of Assessment: The assignment will be evaluated based on 3 criteria stated below and further explained in the rubrics.
Critical evaluation of your current self and your leadership abilities (30%).
Effectiveness
in using theoretical approaches to analyze your leadership preferences
and motivation to lead currently and in the future (50%).
Quality of report’s overall presentation, structure and language (20%).
